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Through the efforts of Investors Savings Bank, whose 65 branches served as toy drop off locations, and with the trucks and manpower of 1-800-Got-Junk? franchisees Drew Trautman, Doug Martin, and Jim Barrett, who picked up and delivered the toys to 20 organizations, nearly three thousand gently used plastic toys were collected and donated on this Earth Day all over New Jersey to children in need. This also means that as many toys were kept out of our landfills and are still providing hours of play, interaction and squeals of joy for so many youngsters. Many thanks to Investors Savings Bank and 1-800-Got Junk? for their continued support of our twice annual collections!
Passaic City Hall was bustling with many youngsters and their parents on Earth Day for Mayor Blanco’s presentation of Second Chance Toys. The children’s eyes widened as Drew Trautman of 1-800-Got-Junk? arrived with a truck load of gently used plastic toys which were gathered from the NJ statewide collection of toys at Investors Savings Bank branches. Bronna Lipton of Second Chance Toys asked the children about the three Rs of the environment and they added their suggestions on how to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Miriam Gonzalez, of Human Services for the city of Passaic, coordinated the event in which Mayor Dr. Alex D. Blanco spoke to the children and parents and underscored the importance of recycling and how we must care for our Earth. The children got to pick out their toys and there was no doubt that both they and the earth were happier for it!!!
Evergreen School students collected toys once again for their third annual Earth Week toy collection. Students wrote bilingual messages on the back of Second Chance Toys tags and hung them on the toys as a way of showing they cared. They learned about plastic toys not biodegrading in our landfills and collected 300 good as new toys that went to helping Honduras.
The students at Mt. Horeb School collected toys for Earth Week and learned about the importance of keeping plastics out of our landfills. The 250 toys they collected were donated to Helping Honduras. Bravo to the children for a job well done!
In an effort to prevent unwanted plastic toys from clogging our landfills, Evergreen School in Scotch Plains, NJ conducted its third annual Earth Week toy collection with Second Chance Toys (www.secondchancetoys.org). Fourth grade students helped organize and tag over 300 toys that were collected with bilingual messages. The toys were donated to Helping Honduras .
You have plastic toys. They have plastic toys. The family down the street has plastic toys. But so many needy young children go without them.
With Earth Week drives in full gear, 1-800-Got-Junk? helps make it all happen. With their full fleet of truck teams, they transport thousands of toys from dozens of collection sites to organizations serving needy children. We thank all the Franchise Partners who make it all possible. You are truly helping to make a difference. Both Good and Green!!!
You can help make a different for Earth Week. Bring your gently used plastic toys to any one of 64 bank locations thoroughout New Jersey. The toys we rescue and recycle will be donated to needy childen. Click Here for Investors Savings Bank Locations
Together we can really make a difference. Please do your part and help us spread the word. Thanks!
As we gear up for our annual Earth Week collections, it seems like programs are coming out of the woodwork. Our volunteer teams are busy fielding inquiries from schools, community groups and businesses of all sizes, all of whom want to conduct their own toy drives.
And all the local recipient organizations are overjoyed and welcoming the toy donations as with a challenging economy and budget cuts they have little means to offer much needed smiles to the children they serve.
So, step up and do something people!
- Help us collect more toys for Earth Week and contribute to saving our planet.
- Offer to volunteer and help us find more organizations to take our toys.
- Clean out your closets and toy trunks and bring them to one of our drop-off locations.
- And if you are a corporation looking for a means to make "Good & Green" part of your company DNA, write to blipton@secondchancetoys.org. This is going to be BIG!
So what are you waiting for? Just do it!!
The New York Kids Club (http://www.nykidsclub.com/), New York’s premier children enrichment center renowned for creative and innovative kids classes, day camps and as a place for creative kids birthday party celebrations, will be holding a gently used plastic toy collection in conjunction with Earth Week at 6 city locations from the West side to Brooklyn. Check Out the Locations Here
The New York Kids Club (http://www.nykidsclub.com/), New York’s premier children enrichment center renowned for creative and innovative kids classes, day camps and as a place for creative kids birthday party celebrations, will be holding a gently used plastic toy collection in conjunction with Earth Week. Check back as details will follow shortly.
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The third annual Second Chance Toys drive to coincide with Earth Week has been announced at 64 Investors Savings Bank locations throughout New Jersey. The collection of gently used plastic toys will take place April 14 through April 21. We are grateful to 1-800-Got-Junk! for continuing to provide all pick-up and transportation of the toys to organizations serving needy children. For a complete list of paticipating bank branch locations and drop-off times, Click Here
Help prevent unwanted, gently used, plastic toys from ending up in the landfills. You can do good (and green) by assisting in the rescue of these gems. We then redistribute them to disadvantaged children at community organizations where the need is greatest. Please give us a hand and join us in, helping us to make this the best Earth Week plastic toy drive ever.
Looking to break new records and exceed the 50,000 plastic toys rescued and donated, Second Chance Toys is gearing up for Earth Week 2010 programs in NY, NJ, PA and IL. Want to help make a difference by reducing waste and beinging huge smile to children in need?? Volunteers and programs needed. Please email us at slipton@secondchancetoys.org to get the conversation started.
Hundreds of toys were collected by the hard-working volunteers of Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, PA on January 18 in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. The gently used plastic toys were donated to Second Chance Toys of PA for distribution to deserving children throughout our community. Thanks to all the wonderful people at Har Zion who made this day possible. Your efforts will make our environment cleaner and many children very happy indeed! Way to go!
Second Chance Toys brought three families together to make the holidays brighter in Lodi. Pictured are members of the Alberto family receiving toys collected by Chelsea and Brittany Schillizzi and Maria Bellinger (bottom right).
For several years now, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchisees have been volunteering their manpower, time and trucks to pick up and deliver toys collected all over New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Many thanks go to New Jersey franchise partners, Drew Trautman, Doug Martin and Jim Barnett, Pennsylvania franchise partner, Eric Blum and New York franchise partner, Cameron Robinson for all their help and hard work. They and their teams picked up, carried, loaded, hauled, and unloaded toys from locations throughout their areas, and delivered over 10,000 toys to numerous organizations that care for children in need. As a result of their volunteered time and energy, thousands of children have received toys for the holidays and during our Earth Week drives! We are sincerely grateful for their support and commitment to helping children and the environment. Pictured below are Drew Trautman, picking up toys collected by students of Evergreen School, Eric Blum, loading up his truck with toys, and Cameron in front of his truck.
It is a sincere pleasure to work with quality people and quality companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK? We really appreciate it.
Thank you all for your generosity!!!!
New Jersey franchise partner, Drew Trautman
Pennsylvania franchise partner, Eric Blum
New York franchise partner, Cameron Robinson
